Wow... this is powerful, sad, loving, heart-wrenching... beautiful lines... I love the pantoum, how thoughts get more solidified... you took a horrifying image and put it into words perfectly..."And so embraced, they calmly drown."

It's frightening to think of such eruptions. I remember the Pinatubo 1991 experience in the Philippines. It wiped out the US Air base and a major part of the surroundings. Weather of the region went through a worst kind. Nice pantoum Cosmo!